Fighting Erupts Among South African Miners

By

Devon Maylie

Feb. 18, 2013 4:27 p.m. ET

JOHANNESBURG—Fighting among unions on Monday at a mine owned by Anglo American Platinum left 13 people injured, South African police said, in a renewal of the violence that left dozens dead last year and caused losses to mining companies and to the South African economy.

Hundreds of mine workers mobilized to attack four members of the National Union of Mineworkers, or NUM, at Anglo American Platinum's Siphumelele mine northwest of Johannesburg, police spokesman Brig. Thulani Ngubane said. Mine security used rubber bullets...